Establishing cross-linguistic semantic relatedness through monolingual corpora: Verbs governing embedded interrogatives

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 465-490

  Defrancq, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contrastive linguistics; Corpus linguistics; Distributional similarity; Embedded interrogatives; Lexical semantics; Semantic relatedness; wh items

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849413959     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.13.4.04def     Document Type: Article

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